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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When Elisa asked for his name the first time they met, the then nameless gargoyle went off on a rant about humans' obsession with labeling everything. He asks if the sky or the nearby river need names to define them, only for Elisa to flatly say that the river was named the Hudson. Dumbfounded, he decided that he would simply be "the Hudson" also.

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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: When Elisa asked for his name the first time they met, the then nameless then-nameless gargoyle went off on a rant about humans' obsession with labeling everything. He asks if the sky or the nearby river need names to define them, only for Elisa to flatly say that the river was named the Hudson. Dumbfounded, he decided that he would simply be "the Hudson" also.
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* RagsToRiches: As a gargoyle, he sees no need to accumulate materialistic wealth of any kind. [[spoiler:This doesn't stop Halcyon Renard from naming him as his third beneficiary after his daughter Fox and grandson Alexander, with Goliath receiving 2% of Renard's Cyberbiotics fortune. Xanatos comments that it might not make him as rich as Thailog, but that's still a ''lot'' of zeroes to suddenly come into his possession.]]
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* SwordAndGun: [[spoiler:After his time-dancing, he carries a [[HeroesPreferSwords longsword]], [[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas]], and a gun.]]

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* SwordAndGun: [[spoiler:After his time-dancing, he carries a [[HeroesPreferSwords longsword]], a [[KatanasAreJustBetter katanas]], katana]], a laser cannon and a gun.]]

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* MindHive



* ThemeNaming: Coldstone's name was a LineOfSightName from Demona's description of him. Xanatos created two new robot bodies for the gargoyles trapped in the Hivemind and dubbed them Coldsteel and Coldfire to keep a theme.

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* ThemeNaming: Coldstone's name was a LineOfSightName from Demona's description of him. Xanatos created two new robot bodies for the gargoyles trapped in the Hivemind MindHive and dubbed them Coldsteel and Coldfire to keep a theme.



* ThemeNaming: Coldstone's name was a LineOfSightName from Demona's description of him. Xanatos created two new robot bodies for the gargoyles trapped in the Hivemind and dubbed them Coldsteel and Coldfire to keep a theme.

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* ThemeNaming: Coldstone's name was a LineOfSightName from Demona's description of him. Xanatos created two new robot bodies for the gargoyles trapped in the Hivemind MindHive and dubbed them Coldsteel and Coldfire to keep a theme.
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* NoNeedForNames: In the tenth century, the gargoyles had no tradition of using individual names amongst themselves. Only the clan's leaders--Goliath and his predecessor Hudson, who was called "Mentor" by Prince Malcolm--were ever given names, and they mostly saw them as little more than odd human affectations. After their awakening in twentieth-century Manhattan, the younger gargoyles decide they like the idea of names to reflect their new lives and enthusiastically choose names they picked up during their exploration of their new home, while the elder Hudson remains fairly ambivalent to the concept and takes his mostly just to humor Elisa.
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-->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Thom Adcox-Hernandez

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* GutturalGrowler: Brooklyn has a low, gravelly voice despite his young age.
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* BackFromTheDead:

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* BackFromTheDead:BackFromTheDead: One of the many casualties of the Wyvern massacre, then brought back a thousand years later through Demona's sorcery into the Coldstone amalgamation made with pieces of his shattered body.



* BackFromTheDead:

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* BackFromTheDead:BackFromTheDead: One of the many casualties of the Wyvern massacre, then brought back a thousand years later through Demona's sorcery, due to pieces of her shattered body being incorporated into the Coldstone amalgamation, and later transferred to her own robot body as Coldfire. In one issue of the Dynamite comics she notes that she has no memory of what may have happened to her soul in the millennium in-between, musing that perhaps such knowledge is not permitted in the world of the living.



* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Actually sort of subverted in the Halloween special; while he does of course pass off his gargoyle nature as a very realistic costume, he specifically dresses as UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, and corrects anyone who identifies his costume as "Blackbeard as a gargoyle" because (he claims in a way that implies the knowledge comes first-hand) Blackbeard ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy was]]'' a gargoyle.

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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Actually Both played straight and sort of subverted in the Halloween special; while he does of course pass off his gargoyle nature as a very realistic costume, he specifically dresses as UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, and corrects anyone who identifies his costume as "Blackbeard as a gargoyle" because (he claims in a way that implies the knowledge comes first-hand) Blackbeard ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy was]]'' a gargoyle.
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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Actually sort of subverted in the Halloween special; while he does of course pass off his gargoyle nature as a very realistic costume, he specifically dresses as UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, and corrects anyone who identifies his costume as "Blackbeard as a gargoyle" because (he claims in a way that implies he knows this from personal experience) Blackbeard ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy was]]'' a gargoyle.

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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Actually sort of subverted in the Halloween special; while he does of course pass off his gargoyle nature as a very realistic costume, he specifically dresses as UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, and corrects anyone who identifies his costume as "Blackbeard as a gargoyle" because (he claims in a way that implies he knows this from personal experience) the knowledge comes first-hand) Blackbeard ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy was]]'' a gargoyle.

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* InSeriesNickname: Prefers to be called Gnash, "With a silent G!".

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* ForHalloweenIAmGoingAsMyself: Actually sort of subverted in the Halloween special; while he does of course pass off his gargoyle nature as a very realistic costume, he specifically dresses as UsefulNotes/{{Blackbeard}}, and corrects anyone who identifies his costume as "Blackbeard as a gargoyle" because (he claims in a way that implies he knows this from personal experience) Blackbeard ''[[BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy was]]'' a gargoyle.
* InSeriesNickname: Prefers to be called Gnash, "With "with a silent G!".
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* UnknownRelative: Coldstone/Othello and Coldfire/Desdemona are the biological parents of Gabriel, though again, gargoyle culture makes this a moot point.

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* UnknownRelative: Coldstone/Othello and Coldfire/Desdemona are the biological parents of Gabriel, though again, gargoyle culture makes this a moot point. When Angela first meets him and points out that [[StrongFamilyResemblance Gabriel is clearly his biological son]], he noticeably doesn't get the point of the term "biological", and later when remarking on how he can't risk his evil brother taking control and harming his children, he is looking at Angela, showing he considers her just as much one of his rookery children as he would Gabriel should they ever meet.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Indigenous American ''and'' African-American. WordOfGod states that her being this underlies her open-mindedness towards the gargoyles that wouldn't come as easily being a white man.[[invoked]]

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* TwoferTokenMinority: Indigenous American ''and'' African-American. African-American, and a woman in a traditionally male career. WordOfGod states that her being this underlies her open-mindedness towards the gargoyles that wouldn't have come as easily being if she had been a white man.[[invoked]]



* TheXenophile: Elisa hasn't shown any hostility or desdain to anyone who isn't human and [[WeirdnessMagnet she has her fair share of unusual encounters]]: gargoyles, mutates, TheFairFolk, Olympians, robot, cyborgs and an alien. She befriend them all as long as they are good people.

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* TheXenophile: Elisa hasn't shown any hostility or desdain disdain to anyone who isn't human and [[WeirdnessMagnet she has her fair share of unusual encounters]]: gargoyles, mutates, TheFairFolk, Olympians, robot, cyborgs and an alien. She befriend them all as long as they are good people.
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[[caption-width-right:139:''"Long ago, at my naming ceremony, my clan in Ishimura chose to call me Katana--having decided, one assumes, that I shared certain... qualities with that weapon. I would accept the name--but would not allow it to define me."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350: Coldfire]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: Coldfire]]"To do nothing is not the gargoyle way."]]



* ReligiousBruiser: Is just as much a trained warrior as any in the clan, but in the tenth century was also interested in following the gargoyles' spiritual traditions as a "warrior-priestess". In the present, she is more introspective than her mate about the nature of their current status as souls trapped in artificial bodies, musing on what may have happened in the time between when they were killed and brought back.




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[[caption-width-right:210:''"I've been on a pirate ship and a flying saucer, but never a subway car."'']]

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* LukeIAmYourFather: Coldstone/Othello and Coldfire/Desdemona are the biological parents of Gabriel, though again, gargoyle culture makes this a moot point.



* UnknownRelative: Coldstone/Othello and Coldfire/Desdemona are the biological parents of Gabriel, though again, gargoyle culture makes this a moot point.



[[caption-width-right:325: Coldfire]]

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* LukeIAmYourFather: Coldstone/Othello and Coldfire/Desdemona are the biological parents of Gabriel, though again, gargoyle culture makes this a moot point.


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* UnknownRelative: Coldstone/Othello and Coldfire/Desdemona are the biological parents of Gabriel, though again, gargoyle culture makes this a moot point.
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* BackfromtheDead:

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* RedOniBlueOni: She is the Blue for her mate Coldstone's Red.

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* IOweYou



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Othello's mate, '''Desdemona''' whose spirit was trapped inside the HiveMind of Coldstone, until she was transand ferred housed inside the robotic body '''Coldire''' constructed by Xanatos.

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Othello's mate, '''Desdemona''' whose spirit was trapped inside the HiveMind cyborg body of Coldstone, until she was transand ferred transferred and subsequently housed inside the robotic body '''Coldire''' constructed by Xanatos.Xanatos dubbed "Coldfire".

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Coldfire/Desdemona and Coldstone rejoin Clan Manhattan in the comics after giving up their hunt for Coldsteel.


* ChangedMyMindKid: [[spoiler:Coldstone and Coldfire officially rejoin the Manhattan Clan at the end of the comics continuity.]]

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* ChangedMyMindKid: [[spoiler:Coldstone and Coldfire officially rejoin the Manhattan Clan at the end of the comics SLG comic continuity.]]



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Brooklyn's mate, hailing from the Ishimura Clan during the [[JidaiGeki Edo Period]].

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-->'''Voiced by (EN):''' Creator/CCHPounder
-->'''Voiced by (IT):''' Stefanella Marrama

Othello's
mate, hailing from '''Desdemona''' whose spirit was trapped inside the Ishimura Clan during HiveMind of Coldstone, until she was transand ferred housed inside the [[JidaiGeki Edo Period]].robotic body '''Coldire''' constructed by Xanatos.


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* AllThereInTheScript: Before being separated and inhabiting her new robotic body with the name Coldfire, the scripts referred to her as [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Desdemona]]. Being traditional gargoyles, the name Desdemona wasn't a name she ever actually used, just ease of reference for the scripts.
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* BareMidriffsAreFeminine: Zig-zagged. Coldfire/Desdemona is a female gargoyle who gets [[SatelliteLoveInterest little characterization]] beyond being Coldstone's LoveInterest, and true to [[MonsterModesty female gargoyle fashion]], she wears a midriff-baring outfit in her non-cybernetic form (which in her case looks like a ChainmailBikini).
* ChangedMyMindKid: [[spoiler:She and Coldstone officially rejoin the Manhattan Clan at the end of the SLG comics continuity.]]
* HealingFactor: As with Coldstone and Coldsteel, her new body is shown being able to self-repair parts of its body using nanotechnology.
* IOweYou
* LukeIAmYourFather: Coldstone/Othello and Coldfire/Desdemona are the biological parents of Gabriel, though again, gargoyle culture makes this a moot point.
* PlayingWithFire: Coldfire's flamethrowers, hence her name.
* ThemeNaming: Coldstone's name was a LineOfSightName from Demona's description of him. Xanatos created two new robot bodies for the gargoyles trapped in the Hivemind and dubbed them Coldsteel and Coldfire to keep a theme.
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Brooklyn's mate, hailing from the Ishimura Clan during the [[JidaiGeki Edo Period]].
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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelDorn (EN), Michele Gammino (IT)




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Coldstone and Coldfire officially joined Clan Manhattan for real, and the Mind Hive no longer applies to the Coldstone cyborg as of Season 2 episode "Possession".


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Brooklyn's mate, hailing from the Ishimura Clan during the [[JidaiGeki Edo Period]].

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-->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MichaelDorn (EN), Michele Gammino (IT)
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[[caption-width-right:325:''"There are forces at war within me, and until that battle is decided, no living gargoyle is safe...from Coldstone."'']]

A gargoyle cyborg created by Xanatos and Demona
from the Ishimura Clan during remains of three of the [[JidaiGeki Edo Period]].lost in the Wyvern massacre, and animated by a combination of science and sorcery. Unfortunately, the three souls inhabiting the body don't always get along; two are mates, but the third is jealous and wants the female for himself. They were collectively known as just "Coldstone" until near the end of the series, when Xanatos created two additional robot bodies so each of the three had their own; now the main personality is Coldstone, his mate is Coldfire, and the evil one is Coldsteel.


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* AllThereInTheScript: Before being separated and given their "Cold_____" names, the scripts referred to the individual gargoyles as [[Theatre/{{Othello}} Othello, Desdemona and Iago]]. Being traditional gargoyles, these aren't names they ever actually used, just ease of reference for the scripts.
* ArmCannon: A laser built into his right arm that appears to be the same sort of technology as the Steel Clan.
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* ChangedMyMindKid: [[spoiler:Coldstone and Coldfire officially rejoin the Manhattan Clan at the end of the comics continuity.]]
* ClassicalAntiHero: Coldstone/Othello isn't a bad guy, but he certainly has his flaws, being quick to anger and at times, needing a push to do the right thing, such as in "High Noon", where Desdemona and the Weird Sisters had to convince him to intervene and remove their body from Iago's control.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Not in reference to Othello'spersonality, but when Iago is in control, Coldstone's voice doesn't change its timbre but it is more sinister sounding.
* FrankensteinsMonster: The circumstances of his creation by Xanatos and Demona are very similar to the monster in the classic story. Xanatos even uses the classic "It's Alive!" line when Coldstone is first brought online.
* GoodAngelBadAngel: When Coldstone is afflicted with a virus that awakens his other two (previously) dormant personalities, Coldfire acts as his good shoulder angel while Coldsteel acts as his evil shoulder angel.
* HealingFactor: Coldsteel's new body is shown being able to self-repair parts of its body.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Iago's corrupting presence kept Coldstone at arms' length from the rest of the clan for much of the series as an untrustworthy WildCard until the personas were finally separated.
* HiveMind
* HollywoodCyborg: To the point where one leg has a length of cybernetics connecting his calf to his ankle.
* HotBlooded: Othello/Coldstone.
* LivingStatue: He is a collection of three shattered gargoyles brought to life through Demona's sorcery. In her words, "cold stone brought to life".
* LukeIAmYourFather: Coldstone/Othello and Coldfire/Desdemona are the biological parents of Gabriel, though again, gargoyle culture makes this a moot point.
* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He's an undead cybernetic stone gargoyle with multiple personalities.
* PhlebotinumRebel: He turned on Xanatos and Demona when he realized that there should be more to life than mere survival.
* ThemeNaming: Coldstone's name was a LineOfSightName from Demona's description of him. Xanatos created two new robot bodies for the gargoyles trapped in the Hivemind and dubbed them Coldsteel and Coldfire to keep a theme.
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Brooklyn's mate, hailing from the Ishimura Clan during the [[JidaiGeki Edo Period]].
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* WarriorTherapist: Established in "The Price," where he both fights and tricks his way out of Xanatos' trap, all the while needling him with astute observations. Xanatos is practically an archetype of unflappable panache, and Hudson still manages to push his buttons.

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* WarriorTherapist: Established in "The Price," where he both fights and tricks his way out of Xanatos' trap, all the while needling him with astute observations. Xanatos is practically an archetype of unflappable panache, and Hudson still manages to push his buttons.buttons...and then give him some friendly advice.
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* WarriorTherapist: Established in "The Price," where he both fights and tricks his way out of Xanatos' trap, all the while needling him with astute observations. Xanatos is practically an archetype of unflappable panache, and Hudson still manages to push his buttons.
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* NiceGuy: Broadway is a loyal, reliable, friendly and quite intelligent despite his appearance, and was the main focus of several of the show's more thought-provoking episodes. [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan This is what actually allows him to win over Angela.]]

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* NiceGuy: Broadway is a loyal, reliable, friendly and quite intelligent despite his appearance, and was the main focus of several of the show's more thought-provoking episodes. [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan This is what actually allows him to win over Angela.]]
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* BrattyHalfPint: Spends most of his time during the early Dynamite comics being a surly brat with a bad attitude. It makes sense when one realizes he's the only gargoyle his age in Manhattan, has no friends to hang out with, and his parents won't even let him go out on patrol. When he gets to go out on Halloween and meets human children who are roughly his age that he gets to hang out with, his attitude improves considerably.

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* BrattyHalfPint: Spends most of his time during the early Dynamite comics being a surly brat with a bad attitude. It makes sense when one realizes he's the only gargoyle his age in Manhattan, has no friends to hang out with, and his parents won't even let him go out on patrol. When he gets to go out on Halloween and meets human children who are roughly about his age that he gets to hang out with, his attitude improves considerably.
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* UglyGuyHotWife: Broadway [[UglyCute isn't exactly ugly]], but is certainly less attractive than the other members of his clan, to the point that he looks kinda goofy or buffoonish, which, combined with [[CuteMonsterGirl Angela's hotness]] qualifies them for this trope.

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* UglyGuyHotWife: Broadway [[UglyCute isn't exactly ugly]], ugly, but is certainly less attractive than the other members of his clan, to the point that he looks kinda goofy or buffoonish, which, combined with [[CuteMonsterGirl Angela's hotness]] qualifies them for this trope.
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* AllThereInTheManual: "Lefty" is his nickname in the script, not a name he actually used.

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* AllThereInTheManual: "Lefty" is his nickname in the script, not a name he actually used. It's a reference to only his left arm remaining.

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* AllThereInTheManual: "Verity" is her nickname in the script, not a name she actually used.

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* AllThereInTheManual: "Verity" is her nickname in the script, not a name she actually used. It's a reference to her penchant for speaking truths, which her mate refers to in-universe as verities.
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* CallBack: When advising Hudson/Mentor to ally with Prince Malcolm, she says that "human problems often become gargoyle problems", a maxim Goliath will repeat in [[Recap/GargoylesS2MIA "M.I.A."]]

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* CallBack: CallForward: When advising Hudson/Mentor to ally with Prince Malcolm, she says that "human problems often become gargoyle problems", a maxim Goliath will repeat in [[Recap/GargoylesS2MIA "M.I.A."]]

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